Bilhar (Bill) Mann is senior vice president, Strategy of CA's Security Management business unit.
Bill is responsible for continuing to build out CA's portfolio of world-class security management solutions and ensuring they are integrated with CA's other Enterprise IT Management solutions. Specific focus areas are identity and access management (IAM), threat management and security information management (SIM).
Bill has 15 years of experience in security management. He joined CA in 2003 to advance its security management strategy and was instrumental in CA's 2004 acquisition of Netegrity, a leading provider of IAM software. Later, he was named senior vice president of product development for CA's SIM and threat management product families.
Prior to CA, Mann was director of product management at Volera, a majority-owned subsidiary of Novell. As director of business development at Novell's Net Content business unit, he defined a co-hosted content distribution service and established strategic partnerships with key data center hosting companies. Mann joined Novell upon its acquisition of JustOn, an application service provider (ASP) startup that he co-founded.
Earlier, as director of product management for email and web security firm Worldtalk (now Tumbleweed), Mann launched one of the first integrated web security products for anti-spam, anti-virus, malicious code and content inspection.
Before moving to the United States in 1996, Bill ran a London-based IT consulting firm where he held security-related consulting and engineering positions for major European clients.


